Delivering cohesion more effectively Integrated urban and territorial development in cohesion policy post- 2020 ITI: COOPERATION ON STRATEGIC PLANNING IN THE WARSAW METROPOLITAN AREA Brussels 14th May, 2018
Key conditionalities of implementing ITIs in Poland new instrument designed by the European Commission which helps to implement integrated territorial strategies tool of building metropolitan cooperation between the communes (so called functional areas ) obligatory for all 18 regional capital cities (dedicated allocation), voluntary for sub-regional cities (facultative allocation) formalization of the local governments cooperation + elaboration of the ITI Strategies and their acceptance by the MAs and the ministry + agreement on the ITI implementation with the MAs (Marshals Offices) NUTS division not corresponding with the Functional Areas delimitation
Key conditionalities of implementing ITIs in Poland 17 regional capitals functional areas 7 additional ( subregional ) functional areas 3,8 bln EUR from EU funds (ERDF, ESF) through the regional OPs additional allocation through the national OPs (Cohesion Fund, ERDF): 2,4 bln EUR (only for the regional FAs) Koszalin-Kołobrzeg- Białogard Szczecin Gorzów Wlkp. Zielona Góra Jelenia Góra Wałbrzych Gdańsk Gdynia - Sopot Bydgoszcz - Toruń Poznań Kalisz Ostrów Wlkp. Wrocław Opole Rybnik Częstochowa Bielsko - Biała Olsztyn Warszawa Łódź Kielce Katowic e Kraków Rzeszów source: J. Wieczorkiewicz-Molendo, Zintegrowane Inwestycje Terytorialne Wrocławskiego Obszaru Funkcjonalnego (ZIT WrOF), City of Wrocław, April 2016 Białystok Lublin
Key conditionalities of functioning and development of Warsaw & Warsaw Metropolitan Area lack of metropolitan institutions (competences, resources, obligations) compensatory grant paid to the state budget: 837 mln PLN (ca. 200 mln EUR) in 2017 population growth: positive migration balance + birthrate significant number of unregistered inhabitants main field of metropolitan cooperation public transport (on the basis of civil law agreements)
Integrated Territorial Investments Strategy for the Warsaw Functional Area 2014-2020+ 40 communes (incl. Warsaw) ca. 2.650.000 inhabitants area: 2.900 km 2 multilateral cooperation declaration: August 2013 Agreement: February 2014 cooperation in the field of common applying for the EU funds 166 mln EUR for the 2014-2023 period (142 mln ERDF, 24 mln ESF) City of Warsaw: Intermediate Body (one of three), involved in the projects assessment procedures
Integrated Territorial Investments Strategy for the Warsaw Functional Area 2014-2020+ first issue (project) of the Strategy for the Warsaw Functional Area: October 2014, accepted: November 2015 objectives: 1. Increasing the access to public services 2. Developing economic networks 3. Improving spatial quality
Integrated Territorial Investments Strategy for the Warsaw Functional Area 2014-2020+ Consulting Forum Steering Committee selection of projects with focus on partnerships (important criteria within the calls for proposals procedure)
Warsaw Functional Area ITI projects & EU funds allocation (regional OP) e-services (incl. e-care, e-archives) (TO 2) 28 mln EUR investment areas (TO 3) 11.6 mln EUR economic promotion (TO 3) 5.7 mln EUR bike routes (TO 4) 63.8 mln EUR P+R parking lots (TO 4) 33.1 mln EUR childcare (TO 8) 12.8 mln EUR development of key competencies of children and youth (TO 10) 8.4 mln EUR educational and vocational counseling (TO 10) 2.5 mln EUR
Complementary & associated projects (national level OP) II metro line construction continuation (3+3, 2+3) low emission urban transport heating networks (third party projects) urban railway (technical background and rolling stock) road network (TEN-T urban node Warsaw within the North Sea Baltic and Baltic Adriatic core network corridors) modernisation of the residential buildings (energetic efficiency, third party projects)
Parallel territorial delimitations of the sustainable development areas three different ranges: WMA, WFA and new NUTS 2 region WMA (OMW) WCR (NUTS 2) WFA ITIs (WOF ZIT) Communes 72 70 40 Inhabitants 3,1 mln 3 mln 2,7 mln Area Dedicated ESIF allocation 6,2 th. km 2 none 6,1 th. km 2 none 2,9 th. km 2 165,8 mln EUR the NUTS 2 division (WCR): the basis for the upcoming EU financial perspective programming (post-2020)
Cooperation extension in the WFA/Metropolis broadening the scope of thematic cooperation beyond the topics associated with the implementation of ITIs eg. strengthened anti-pollution/low-carbon economy common activities bringing together the local development objectives within the WMA area, basing on the implementation of the ITIs Strategy and WMA Strategy adapting the area of cooperation to the administrative & statistic boundaries (metropolitan NUTS 2) cooperation of the Capital City of Warsaw and the regional authorities of Mazovian Voivodship at the programming of the development policy in a financial perspective after 2020
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION! Paweł Sajnog European Funds and Development Policy Department City of Warsaw